piso

See also: Piso, pisó, and pišo

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• peso

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pi‧so
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/, [ˈpi.so]

Noun

píso (plural pisos)

1. peso (currency)

See also

• kuwarta
• manaro
• pirak
• salapi

 

Catalan

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pi‧so
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/, [ˈpi.s̪ɔ]

Noun

piso

1. peso (Philippines)
2. a coin or note worth one peso

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish piso (“floor”).

Noun

piso

1. floor; story

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiso]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Hyphenation: pi‧so

Noun

piso (accusative singular pison, plural pisoj, accusative plural pisojn)

1. (informal) piss
   • 2005, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Armela LeQuint and Ĵak Le Puil, Vojaĝo ĝis Noktofino [Journey to the End of the Night], New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 225:

     Ĉu vi ne trovas ke la malsanuloj odoras pison?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2007, Rubén Gallego, translated by Kalle Kniivilä, Blanko sur Nigro, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 33:

     Laŭ la muroj etendiĝis la vicoj de litoj, el kiuj fluis piso.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2011, Eugène de Zilah, La Princo ĉe la Hunoj, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 295:

     La piso estas kristala.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015, Sten Johansson, Skabio, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, page 169:

     Ne plu estis fantomoj tie, nur amaso da urtikoj, kiuj odoris je piso.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015 October, Rikardo Cash, “Duonhora pluvego”, in Probal Daŝgupto, István Ertl, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Suso Moinhos, Tim Westover, editors, Beletra Almanako, 9th year, number 24, New York, N.Y.: Mondial, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 68:

     Tiel mia fumo ne ĝenos ŝin, kaj ŝia piso ne ĝenos min!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2020, Lode Van de Velde, Aspiroj, →ISBN, page 60:

     Poste li iras al la banĉambro por rapida duŝo kaj piso, ŝprucas senodorigilon sub la akselojn kaj surmetas la samajn vestojn kiel la antaŭa tago.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Galician

Etymology 1

Back-formation from pisar (“to tread, press”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpisʊ]

Noun

piso m (plural pisos)

1. floor, surface

   Synonym: chan

2. storey

   Synonyms: andar, planta

3. apartment

   Synonym: apartamento

4. sole

   Synonym: sola

5. bed (of a cart)

   Synonyms: chedeiro, estrado, leito, sollo

Related terms

• pisar

References

• “piso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “piso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “piso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin piscem.

Noun

piso m (plural pisi)

1. fish

Related terms

• pascà
• pascadur

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.soː/, [ˈpiːs̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.so/, [ˈpiːs̬o]

Etymology 1

From the root of pīnsō, pistus +‎ -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

pīsō m (genitive pīsōnis); third declension

1. mortar (hollow vessel used with a pestle)
   • c. 400 CE, Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis liber 8:

     Adversus umores et subitos inpetus oculorum et epiphoras radices betae maxime nigrae ex aqua tepida lavabis et expressas sabano siccabis, deinde tundes in pisone marmoreo et sucum inde linteo intorto exprimes, tum leviter ad carbones despumatum tepefacies et naribus infundes, ita ut is cui medeberis aquam tepidam in ore contineat, et si unus oculus laborabit, diversae partis nares infundes et melle Attico continges.

     ...next you will pound them in a marble mortar...

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pīsō	pīsōnēs
Genitive	pīsōnis	pīsōnum
Dative	pīsōnī	pīsōnibus
Accusative	pīsōnem	pīsōnēs
Ablative	pīsōne	pīsōnibus
Vocative	pīsō	pīsōnēs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pīsō

1. dative/ablative singular of pīsum

Further reading

• “pīso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• piso in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• piso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “piso”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “piso”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Lithuanian

Verb

piso

1. third-person singular/plural past of pisti

Malagasy

Etymology

From English puss.

Noun

piso

1. cat

   Synonyms: saka, ampaha

2. kitty; puss

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.zu/

Etymology 1

From pisar (“to step”).

Noun

piso m (plural pisos)

1. storey (level of a building)

   Synonym: andar

2. floor (lower part of a room)

   Synonym: chão

3. surface (to walk on)

   Synonyms: terreno, pavimento

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/ [ˈpi.so]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pisar.

Noun

piso m (plural pisos)

1. floor, ground (surface of the earth)

   Synonym: suelo

2. floor, story, storey (level of a building)

   Synonyms: nivel, planta

3. (Spain) flat, apartment

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Uruguay, Venezuela) apartamento, (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) departamento, (colloquial in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) depa, apartamiento, (rare or dialectal) vivienda

4. deck (level on a ship or vehicle)

   Synonyms: cubierta, náutica

5. (in compounds, in the plural) decker (bus, bed)

   autobús de dos pisos ― double-decker bus

6. level, layer of a structure e.g. a cake

   Synonym: nivel

7. tier (layer of a cake)

   Synonym: nivel

   torta de tres pisos ― three-tier cake

8. (Chile) footstool

   Synonyms: banqueta, banco, banquillo, reposapiés, escabel

9. (Chile) rug, carpet

   Synonyms: tapiz, choapino, chopino

10. (Spain) sole

    Synonym: suela

11. step (action and effect of stepping on something)

    Synonym: pisada

Derived terms

• bloque de pisos
• narcopiso
• piso franco
• piso patera
• piso pélvico
• secador de piso

 

Related terms

• pisito
• pisotear

 

Etymology 2

Verb

piso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pisar

Further reading

• “piso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• peso

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish peso (“weight”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpiso/, [ˈpi.so]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: pi‧so

Noun

piso (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜓ)

1. peso (Philippines)
2. a one-peso coin
3. (games, colloquial) one point

Related terms

• peseta

 

See also

• sentimo

 

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian piscio

Noun

piso m (plural pisi)

1. urine, piss

Related terms

• pisar

Welsh

Etymology

From Old French pissier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsɔ/

Verb

piso (first-person singular present pisaf)

1. to piss

   Synonym: pibo

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	pisaf	pisi	pisa	piswn	piswch	pisant	pisir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	piswn	pisit	pisai	pisem	pisech	pisent	pisid
preterite	pisais	pisaist	pisodd	pisasom	pisasoch	pisasant	piswyd
pluperfect	pisaswn	pisasit	pisasai	pisasem	pisasech	pisasent	pisasid, pisesid
present subjunctive	piswyf	pisych	piso	pisom	pisoch	pisont	piser
imperative	—	pisa	pised	piswn	piswch	pisent	piser
verbal noun	piso
verbal adjectives	pisedig pisadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	pisa i, pisaf i	pisi di	pisith o/e/hi, pisiff e/hi	piswn ni	piswch chi	pisan nhw
conditional	piswn i, pisswn i	piset ti, pisset ti	pisai fo/fe/hi, pissai fo/fe/hi	pisen ni, pissen ni	pisech chi, pissech chi	pisen nhw, pissen nhw
preterite	pisais i, pises i	pisaist ti, pisest ti	pisodd o/e/hi	pison ni	pisoch chi	pison nhw
imperative	—	pisa	—	—	piswch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
piso	biso	mhiso	phiso
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “piso”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Makian

Etymology

From Malay pisau, likely through North Moluccan Malay [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.s̪o/

Noun

piso

1. knife

   Synonym: kobi

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics